How to avoid system standby programmatically?

Hi all,
I implemented an application that uses NSThread to transfer pictures from a digital camera. The process might take long so I would like to ensure that the Mac won't go to sleep during the transfer.
I have three questions:
1). Is it actually possible for the Mac to go to sleep during such process?
2). Assuming that the answer of 1). is 'yes', how can achieve that programmatically?
3). If 2). is done and picture transfer is finished how can I (programmatically) reset to the
previous state?
Basically I need two methods: 'avoidSystemStandBy' and 'resetSystemPreviousStandByMode'.
Regards
- artOf...

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Hi All,
Iam loading one of our schema from stage to test server using datapump expdp and impdp.Its size is around 332GB.
My Oracle server instance is on unix server rwlq52l1 and iam connecting to oracle from my client instance(rwxq04l1).
iam running the expdp and impdp command from Oracle client using the below commands.
expdp pa_venky/********@qdssih30 schemas=EVPO directory=PA_IMPORT_DUMP dumpfile=EVPO_Test.dmp CONTENT=all include=table
impdp pa_venky/********@qdsrih30 schemas=EVPO directory=PA_IMPORT_DUMP dumpfile=EVPO_Test.dmp CONTENT=all include=table table_exists_action=replace
Here export is completed and import is struck at below index building.After some time iam seeing below time out in log files
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/INDEX/INDEX.
Error:-
VERSION INFORMATION:
TNS for Linux: Version 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
Unix Domain Socket IPC NT Protocol Adaptor for Linux: Version 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
Oracle Bequeath NT Protocol Adapter for Linux: Version 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
TCP/IP NT Protocol Adapter for Linux: Version 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
Time: 13-JAN-2012 12:34:31
Tracing not turned on.
Tns error struct:
ns main err code: 12535
TNS-12535: TNS:operation timed out
ns secondary err code: 12560
nt main err code: 505
TNS-00505: Operation timed out
nt secondary err code: 110
nt OS err code: 0
Client address: (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=170.217.82.86)(PORT=65069))
The above ip address is my unix client system(rwxq04l1) ip.
How to see oracle client system port number?
Please suggest me how to avoid this time out issues.Seems this time out is between oracle server and client.
Thanks,
Venkat Vadlamudi.

Don't run from the client ... run from the server
or
if running from a client use the built-in DBMS_DATAPUMP package's API.
http://www.morganslibrary.org/reference/pkgs/dbms_datapump.html

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